“…the hotel is about 50 years old and does not have a sprinkler system. The fire, coupled with 30 to 40 mile-per-hour winds, knocked down nearby power lines, forcing the rescue crews back…”
“…The broken live wires forced rescue crews to wait for the power company to arrive at the scene and disconnect the power…”
One person was found dead Saturday morning at the site of a fire that burned a Logan County motel to the ground the day before. The Logan Motor Lodge on Rt. 10 caught fire at about 11:30 p.m. Friday night, Logan firefighter Chris Hatfield said. Firefighters spent about 10 hours battling the blaze, during which one person was reported missing.
It’s not clear whether the body found Saturday morning was that of the missing person. Authorities have not released the name of the person.
Forty of the hotel’s 45 rooms were occupied at the time of the fire, Hatfield said. No other injuries were reported.
“We had a lot of difficulty as far as the high winds were concerned,” Hatfield said.
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